Go on to jail. Do not go go. Do not gather $200.
Listen, we’ve all been there. You sit down for a sport of Monopoly and 7 hours later a small fortune in paper cash has been handed round, and everyone seems to be simply depressing — it’s a basic, defining second in lots of households. But this Oklahoma man took it a bit too far…
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On Saturday round 6:30pm, the Tulsa Police Department bought a name about photographs being fired at a house close to East Admiral Place and North Mingo Road. According to KTUL, when police arrived they had been instructed the household that lived on the residence had been consuming and taking part in a sport of the Hasbro favourite when issues took a darkish flip.
Per police studies, John Ronald Dewayne Armstrong bought in a combat along with his stepfather and issues turned violent. During the altercation, somebody flipped the sport over — in addition to a number of items of furnishings — and amidst all of the chaos Armstrong sustained a reduce on his head. The harm prompted him to drag out a weapon — a loaded gun. When Armstrong’s stepfather and stepsister went outdoors, he started chasing his members of the family down the road, firing his gun of their route.
He actually shot at his circle of relatives?? Well, that’s not completely clear. Tulsa police officer Danny Bean instructed KTUL:
“It escalated quickly from family game night to furniture being turned over and game pieces all over the floor. He said he was aiming for the ground when he shot at them.”
But that doesn’t make it much less critical, as Bean identified:
“We came close to having a homicide over a game of Monopoly. We don’t know if it was about game pieces, play money, real money, but something set him off … There are no get out of jail free cards in life, and we put the cuffs on him and took him to jail.”
Scary!
Law enforcement have nonetheless not discovered the gun in query; they consider Armstrong hid it inside the house earlier than he was arrested. But it wasn’t sufficient to cover the crime from police; Armstrong was charged with one depend of assault with a lethal weapon and booked into the Tulsa County Jail. His bond was set at $25,000 and he has since been bailed out. He’s as a consequence of return to courtroom on December 2.
Officer Bean summed up the incident to KTUL in a single sentence:
“When he pulled the trigger that’s when family game night turned into a felony.”
Wow.
We’ve heard of getting mad over household sport night time, however by no means something like this! Reactions, Perezcious readers?
[Image via Tulsa County Jail/Hasbro/YouTube]
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